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To steal an address:
1. Press the
lOCO
key, then enter the address for the loco and press
lOCO
to
select the loco on your throttle. The display will first show the loco address
then the following:
2. Press the
lOCO
key to accept control of the loco. Once a throttle has
“stolen” a loco address, both throttles with the address selected will update
speed and direction information for the loco address. This can result in
strange locomotive behavior especially if one throttle is trying to to stop the
loco and the other is trying to speed it up at the same time.
3. When you have gained control of the stolen loco and are finished running it,
release it from your throttle by setting the loco’s speed to
0
and pressing the
lOCO
key followed by the
exit
key.
This feature can be useful for training new operators or supervising engineers
who insist on breaking the speed limit. The supervisor can “steal” a locomotive
that is selected on a trainee’s throttle and be able to closely supervise that loco-
motive’s control, taking over when necessary. The supervisor can gain instant
override control without having to physically “grab” the trainee’s throttle. This
lets you have unskilled visitors participating and enjoying operations without
too much anxiety for either party.
20.0 Releasing an Address From a Throttle
When you are finished running a locomotive address, release if from your
throttle so that it is available for other throttles to select and run and so that
your command station will have room to run other addresses.
To release an address from a throttle:
1. With the loco address selected on the throttle, use the
Throttle Knob
to set
the locomotive’s speed to
StOp
.
2. Press the
lOCO
key to release the address from your throttle immediately.
The address will begin to flash in the display.
3. Press the
exit
key to dispatch the address on the throttle and the locomo-
tive will be released to the system and marked as a dispatched address. Your
DCS51’s display will show
Loco
.
4. If you press the
lOCO
key again, the throttle will begin flashing the address
you just released. You can re-select that address by pressing the
lOCO
Key
or you can use the key pad to enter a new address and select it instead.
20.1DispatchingaddressesorMus
Dispatching is a special feature incorporated in the LocoNet “language” to
meet the needs of operators that wish to enforce a strict discipline in how oper-
ators gain access to locomotives during an operating session. Dispatching also
lets you run MUs with basic throttles that can’t set up their own MUs and run
four digit addresses on basic throttles that only have two digit capability. It lets
